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- The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down-on-their-luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
- Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
- When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
- One day a nerdy middle-aged small-town man gets an exotic companion who can make wishes come true. Because the creature looks funny and behaves in an obnoxious way, he encounters all kinds of funny and embarrassing situations.
- A group of boys from a boarding school in Bamberg face a multitude of challenges - fights against local school boys, conflicts with their prefect and overcoming their own fears.
- Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
- Charleen, 15, quick-witted and sassy, is Kurt Cobain's biggest fan and wonders why 'growing up' has to be so complicated. One day, feeling especially melodramatic and rebellious, she decides to pull the plug on her life. Luckily, she fails - and discovers what fun life and love can really be!
- There is something everyone should know: if you live with a Sams under the same roof for over ten years, you slowly but surely start to transform yourself into a Sams.
- Documentary about the rock group BAP from Cologne in Germany.
- After eleven years, Sams returns to Herr Taschenbier. This time to help his shy son Martin. Martin soon discovers the virtues of the Sams
- Under false pretenses, Pitschi flees from a mutual holiday with his girlfriend on Mallorca only to escape to Buenos Aires and from the responsibilities of having a baby and building a house.
- Ten-year-old Jakob, a handsome, dreamy, sheltered boy, prefers to help his mother at her vegetable stall at the market instead of helping his father in the shoemaker's workshop. One day an ugly old woman appears there, whose behavior Jacob looks at both critically and fearfully. It is the fairy herb white who lures the boy away from his parents with a ruse - and into their house. This is where a seven-year hard apprenticeship begins for him, which leads him into the witch's kitchen in several stages. Under the strict guidance of the fairy, Jakob ultimately develops into a true master of the art of cooking.When he wakes up from his supposed dream and can finally escape, Jakob sees himself transformed into a misshapen dwarf with a long nose. Repelled in horror by his parents, who do not recognize him, and mocked by his fellow citizens because of his appearance, the unfortunate man finally arrives at Duke Alois' court. He was enthusiastic about Jacob's cooking skills and accepted him into his service. Henceforth he is called "dwarf nose" and for the first time since his transformation he has received professional recognition. As a person, however, he remains a lonely outsider. Only when he meets Mimi, a young girl who has been transformed into a goose, is there a being with whom he is can speak openly about his fate. New mischief brews when the demanding Countess Wilhelmine comes to visit. Duke Alois wants to persuade his beloved to marry and dwarf nose should seduce her with his culinary art. When the lady asks of all things a pie whose recipe Jakob does not know, the master chef's life is in danger. Fortunately, Mimi, who is also enchanted, has advice.
- Bamberg 1630. The era of witch-hunting. The surgeon professor Cornelius (Mark Waschke) returns from Vienna, where he is a renowned physician, to his homeland. He is soon forced to face the show trial of witches and appraise, as medical expert, the methods of Commissioner Mr. Berger (devilish Axel Milberg). Cornelius feels his blood churning inside when he is ordered to stay in the city. Snow in June, crop failures, the Catholic Church is worried about those obvious signs of the Devil's presence in the Reformation and its growing power. Rumors start wafting through the city of important people tempted by the Evil. Eventually the first alleged witches come in detention. Who wants to get rid of someone or hurt him, simply accuses him of being a magician or witch. One day the pyre threatens his childhood sweetheart Johanna (Silke Bender). Cornelius plots with bold city councils against the arbitrariness of the church and the fanaticism of Bamberg's authorities. He tries by all means to save Johanna. But the hunt continues unabated. More and more pyres burn. The Church - Alexander Held convinced as auxiliary bishop and chief ideologue of the fanatical pursuit - plays their power mercilessly. At the cruel Maleficent Chamber, Mr. Berger is the wily witch Commissioner. He benefits greatly with the witch processes, because the legacy of the condemned flows to the Church coffers. Cornelius escapes Bamberg and presents the case before the emperor in Vienna. Can he convince him to put an end to the horrific events in Bamberg? But how can Cornelius enforce the law and order in time to save Johanna?
- Troubled by the fact that she is still a virgin and doesn't want her fiance to deflower her, a 19-year-old German teenager takes off to the big city for an operation.
- Documentary, also known as "Mission to Murder Hitler", chronicling Valkyrie, the true story of a German Resistance group attempting to murder Adolf Hitler.
- An equally despotic, ostentatious, and lavishly-living sovereign indiscriminately drives innocent peasant sons directly from the fields where they are working to sell them for a mercenary bounty to America.
- The king is a crime series with Günter Strack in the lead role.
- Strange things begin to happen to a student when he rents a room once belonging to the poet ETA Hoffmann.
- Kommissar Peter Haller erwartet am Tag seiner Rückkehr nach Bamberg gleich der erste Fall.
- Music student Eva (Anna Maria Mühe) has fallen head over heels in love with musician Jo (Max von Thun). The couple have a burning passion for one another and discover that they are able to communicate without auxiliary means, even across great distances. Their love is so great that Eva even follows her boyfriend into heroin addiction. But now this has to come to an end: Eva is pregnant and the two of them plan to go cold turkey in the solitude of New Zealand. Evas father, conservative choirmaster and organist Johannes (Hanns Zischler), denies them financial support and breaks off all contact. There is also little hope of raising the money from other sources. In their desperation Eva and Jo spontaneously decide to rob a shop. In a panic Eva strikes the shop owner dead, while Jo is arrested by the police and ends up in custody. Eva can escape with the shop owners pistol, however, and wanders through Bamberg. In her despair she maintains an internal dialogue with Jo, whom she feels more connected to emotionally than ever before. Classical scholar Paul (Axel Prahl) and his wife Gisela (Kirsten Block) meanwhile have other problems. They are facing the ruins of their marriage. By accident Eva enters their apartment and takes the couple hostage with surprising consequences Tom (Johannes Allmayer), Evas deeply hurt ex, is also reactivated and suddenly seems to do whatever is required to make the New Zealand dream possible for the expectant mother and her boyfriend.
- German filmmaker Vincent Dieutre is accompanied by a close friend's teenage son on a trip to Berlin and in the process reminisces about his life as a gay man in his 2003 autobiographical documentary entitled Mon Voyage d'Hiver (My Voyage in Winter). Dieutre and his traveling companion, Itvan, visit numerous friends and landmarks, all holding special meaning to the 40-year-old filmmaker as they make their way to the German capital. As the pair grows closer as friends, Dieutre also takes on a paternalistic relationship with the boy as he details his own journey of self discovery -- partially to assist Itvan with his own adult transformation, but also as a means for Dieutre's own legacy to endure. My Voyage in Winter was selected for inclusion into the Forum Program of the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide
- Deceased innkeeper Andreas Pfeiffer has indicated in his will that his restaurant will be given to whoever can provide an education for his son. Unfortunately, this just results in the lad being moved from one foster parent to another.
- 29-year-old lawyer Heinz Wiegand goes to the Eastern part of Germany on a business trip. When he comes upon a gang of Neonazis who have blocked up a road in order to keep their village free of unwanted strangers, he refuses to obey their commands. They thrash his car and beat him over the head. After Wiegand has died in hospital, his former colleague Werner Neuss acts as attorney for Wiegand's widow. In court he viciously attacks a man wrongfully accused - a hitchhiker who was in Wiegand's car at the time of the incident. The Nazis, in cooperation with the village population, have framed the poor guy, and Neuss buys their fake evidence.
- A grotesque love story about a man and the seemingly perfect woman. He tries everything to make her happy, but in the end can't deal with her flawlessness. His love becomes hate.
- Kirk Douglas in mask and uniform in his Major Steve Garrett role on the set of the film 'Town without Pity'. He speaks in German a few greeting words to the premiere audience of 'Spartacus' in Germany and said very sorry that he can't came to this evening because he must filming.
- Louisa is living a gloomy life. She takes rescue in literature, loosing herself in books and novels. One day she takes a book from the library, she did not choose: A guide to Lucid Dreaming. Soon she discovers the endless options of this new universe of opportunities: living a dream.
- Executioner does not want to behead his lover, whose husband drank the cup with which she wanted to kill herself.
- Depicts the near total destruction of a proud small town Spanish family. Set during the time of Napoleon's occupation of Spain, during the Penisular war 1807-1814 with France on one side and England and Spain on the other.
- Father Braun must rush to the death bed of countess Marietta of Junkersdorf in Frankenland, diverted from his housekeeper Margot's modest farmer inheritance, shared with a country stepsister. But the aristocrat expects to be betrothed to butler and recently re-found youth love Max, mainly to spite her gold-digging kin. Braun finds himself in a wasps nest including the majordomo Butzke, who falls to his death, and shortly after the suspiciously dying groom, while the countess offers forensic help. Braun digs into older secrets.
- Bishop Hemmelrath transfers Pfarrer Braun to Franken, for a 'real Bavarian' like him a renegade region as it left the 'free state'. The parish town, Kurdorf, boast a miraculous bleeding and weeping Jesus-image carved in a cliff, which becomes a pilgrimage site. Braun stumbles onto the corpse of local reporter Manuel Kullmann, which has stigmata. Shortly after, the Vatican fact finder's corpse is also found. Braun mistrusts the votive exploitation and preacher, proves the miracle fake and discovers more local secrets.